Gardening Science

It's easy to grow your own organic vegetables from seed, even if you're a beginner. Strong, healthy plants are essential to successful organic food gardening. In this audiobook you'll learn everything you need to know about successfully growing healthy seedlings in easy-to-follow steps. We tell you how to choose seeds; make your own seed-raising mix; and sow, grow, and transplant seedlings. You'll learn the best watering techniques.

Hugelkultur, also sometimes referred to as hugel bed, is a permaculture gardening technique for growing vegetables in heaps made from timber and covered over with topsoil. In this short introduction to a well established but little known growing concept, you will discover what it involves and how it can be used to great advantage particularly in dry arid regions. With a proper understanding and application of this simple technique, vegetables can be grown with minimum irrigation—and less backache!

Butterflies bloom as delicately as flowers in this magnificent story of beginnings, middles and ends: eggs, caterpillars, and finally butterflies.

Budding backyard scientists can start exploring their world with this stunning introduction to these flowery show-stoppers - from seeds to roots to blooms. Learning how flowers grow gives kids beautiful building blocks of science and inquiry.